Birds and baby animals, sentence 4

Other tales melt under a test: scientists played a quack in an echo room and heard it echo, and birds eat dry grains every day without exploding.

Who acts: Other tales, scientists, quack, birds · What happens: melt, play, hear, echo, eat, explode · To what, where: test, quack, echo room, dry grains

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other tales, scientists, quack, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tales	amod
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	nsubj
3	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 test	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 test	det
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	nsubj
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 quack	det
11	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 room	det
14	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 played	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	echo	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	conj
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grains	amod
25	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	obj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl:unmarked
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 exploding	mark
29	exploding	explode	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 eat	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 melt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	melt	present	Other tales		a test		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	play	past	scientists	a quack	a echo room		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quack=Theme
3	hear	past	scientists not said here	quack			tree rules
4	echo	infinitive	quack not said here				vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	present	birds	dry grains		day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
6	explode	gerund	birds not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:4.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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